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Posted by: ijimiji
Seriously though, thanks to everyone who gets it and is a positive force in our community.
seriously though, what's to get? is it that you choose to release a teaser that is far too vague to grasp any concrete info from and then say nothing about it, pretending to be holding some incredible secret? this is only a videogame. now i love halo as much as the next guy, and i can understand the need to glorify your creations (or in this case, your careers), but this constant tease of worthless tidbits is just ridiculous. just tell us all that you can about the things we want to know about (not how bungie employees spent their summer vacation or whatever this week's BS topic is) with a straightforward answer and people will sing your praises. instead, you choose to constantly jerk your fans around by ignoring the topics we want you talk about. remember bungie, we buy your games, so the least you could do is give us information without dangling tasty stuff in front of our faces and ripping it out of our grasp the second we reach out to touch it.
i mean no serious disrespect, but i'd think if you did a better job with these updates, you're community would be that much more appreciative and views like mine would never come up. flame me all you want, or simply ignore the message i have for you. i'm sure there are thousands upon thousands of other people who feel the same way i do about your weekly updates. worth thinking about it...
Bungie is successful because they make innovative, defining games, and they know how to run an extremely well-oiled hype machine. It's obviously done for a reason, and said machine has worked on countless others.
Including you. Let it rest, be a patient man.
That being said, let's move on to the main reason I'm posting.
Congratulations on the 1 year anniversary of Halo 3, Bungie. I may be a few days late, but hey, it's the 7hough7 that counts, am I right?
Seriously, all 7's aside, congratulations. You've made three genre-defining first person shooters, despite all the complaints you get from unappreciative players. When there's change, there's complaints, people get thrown out of the comfortable norm.
I can't say I've played ONI or the original Marathon games, because I haven't. Well, besides Durandal which I bought on the XBL Marketplace, but that's besides the point.
I started appreciating what you guys do when CE came out. In my opinion, that opened the door for other first person shooters on consoles. It took a genre - and perfected it. No other game or developer can say they've done that. In fact, no other game or developer can say they've made two highly popular trilogies. Marathon, of course, and the Halo series.
The Halo series has all connected us in some way, between the random "WTF UR A BK GTFO U SUK" and "lawl ur skill is 12", we're all connected, and we all share a love of these games. Everyone on Bungie.net, everyone who's ever bought one of the games, the books, the action figures, etc. We all have one thing in common.
Of course, that goes for any popular game series. But the difference is, our voice doesn't go unheard. Many developers would opt out when it comes to "customer relations" as they put it. The thing is though, Bungie..You, as developers, do what many other developers consider to be equal to suicide.
You communicate with your raving, ranting, sometimes downright rude fans. You listen to us, and make decisions based on us. For that alone, I applaud you for as long as my hands aren't on a 360 controller playing Halo 3.
You brought me and my friends closer together. Loud drunken nights whilst pistol sniping each other on Blood Gulch. Screams of "FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, PUT DOWN THE -blam!- ROCKETS ALREADY!" on Battle Creek. And, of course, co-op campaign. We fought together amidst fuel rod cannon-wielding grunts, and died together in a pile.
As cliche as it sounds to admit this, but your games and the community you've brought together have completely impacted my life in no way any other developer\game could even dream of attempting.
Let's hear it for one more year.
[Edited on 09.27.2008 3:50 AM PDT]